Will you vote for Obama if he signs SOPA into law?

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

People who support SOPA shouldn't be allowed on this site/the internet at all.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

When you refuse to participate in file sharing, you aren't helping out the artists. You're helping out the music labels and media companies (the lion's share of profits don't go to bands or film makers) and destroying your chances of experiencing a really wide range of music (unless you're upper middle class). I buy music but file sharing is a great tool that lets me listen to it a few times to see if it's actually worth the purchase.

Forcing change upon these dinosaurs through file sharing alone makes it worth it.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

When you refuse to participate in file sharing, you aren't helping out the artists. You're helping out the music labels and media companies (the lion's share of profits don't go to bands or film makers) and destroying your chances of experiencing a really wide range of music (unless you're upper middle class). I buy music but file sharing is a great tool that lets me listen to it a few times to see if it's actually worth the purchase.

Forcing change upon these dinosaurs through file sharing alone makes it worth it.

And it's not like groups will go extinct if everyone illegally downloads -- the good ones won't, anyways.  A lot of groups make a lot of their money from touring or selling merchandise.

Yeah, if anything illegal downloading in the long run will help bands because it could create a new business model that's more optimal for the producers (who in all honesty don't need record companies or media to push their product anymore) and that relies more on more innovative ways of finding revenue.

The vast majority of bands aren't angry at people who illegally download, they participate in it themselves.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Is the anti-piracy crowd even going to attempt to defend their views here?

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Is the anti-piracy crowd even going to attempt to defend their views here?

What a strange sentence.

Thanks.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Again with this "fascism". Unless this bill supports the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through discipline, indoctrination, physical education, and family policy, led by a supreme leader who exercises a dictatorship over the fascist movement, the government and other state institutions, it isn't fascism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diction

Fascism stopped becoming a term for specific right-wing movements a long time ago, dude.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

I'm not opposed to this because I pirate music, I just don't understand why some people have such strong convictions against it in their personal lives. Public policy obviously should defend intellectual property but not in way that erodes due process and stifle innovation. It would increase overhead costs for companies in the name of protecting the profit margins for a much smaller sector of our economy. While I hate hyperbole (no, this bill won't shut down Facebook, conspiracy-mongers), I'd prefer to not give the government powers that trample over our civil liberties.

The trade off isn't worth it and it's blatant corporatism for Congress to create such draconian measures for the entertainment industry.